Entertaining Angels

15. In the film about Dorothy Day you can see her have many life struggles after she takes on the big responsibility of feeding and sheltering the poor and homeless. Some of these life struggles she doesn't see until her own daughter stands up to her and tells her. Tamar asking her mother to stay at her friends house shows Dorothy that at home Tamar is not getting the food that she needs as a young girl and is starving. Dorothy's face conveys to me her surprise and how she is torn between her own daughter and the people who need her to survive. The filmmakers are telling us that the lifestyle that she has chosen to live out by helping those who are much less fortunate than her has taken a toll on her own life. The people that she helps are taking her own daughters food from her and leaving Tamar hungry and Dorothy is left in a rough situation. She is torn between the daughter she loves and the people she loves to care and feed them. In our own ministry those who minister must sacrifice the right to have a family. All priests and nuns in the ministry are not aloud to have there own family because there life is devoted to God and serving him and his people. Dorothy had a difficult time balancing out her own family and the people but she followed God's call, loved everyone equally, and cared for all just like the ministry.